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You can find out more about Creator in Tor Norbye's blog. Did you know that Tor worked on NetBeans before he moved to Creator? (Update: see comments for Tor's explanation) He's the main author of the visual editor in Creator now.

Why would you want to try Creator? It contains a drag&drop GUI JSF editor, support for portlets, visual query editing, easy data integration from JDBC databases... and some other features you can't find in NetBeans.

Actually, I've never worked on NetBeans itself, but I did (in my spare time) develop the tasklist module suite earlier on - and have been a NetBean advocate for quite a while! (Because of that open source contribution I was elected to the NetBeans Board as a community rep, not a Sun rep.) (I was "almost" on the NetBeans team for a couple of months when I was "on loan" to help out with the projects 1 work. At that time I was also working on a Friday project which ended up being Creator!)